What does the Future Hold for the Open RAN Initiative?

Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this article Natasha Tamaskar, Vice President Global Marketing and Sales Strategy at Radisys, peers into her crystal ball to see what lies ahead for O-RAN.

The telecom industry has been undergoing a significant transformation for the last several years as mobile operators seek to address the bandwidth demands of the 4^th Industrial Revolution – as they move from connecting devices and people to connecting everything. As such, they are transforming their networks from purpose-built hardware-centric solutions from a proprietary vendor to new open, disaggregated and software-centric networks built from an interoperable multi-vendor ecosystem.